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The Academy that preceded the Main street High School— what was its name?
Donaldson says "In 1870 the two school districts were consolidated and the School on the Hill was taken back to the center of the village again. A new building was erected on the lot opposite the Berkeley where the large High School stands to day. It soon proved inadequate for the rapid increase in pupils and a larger school house had to be built. The old one was moved back to the corner of Academy Street and used for a while in conjunction with the new one. When finally abandoned it became the home of the local Masons until they built one of their own in 1902. It was then transformed into a dwelling and has been so used ever since.
Was it built in 1870? What "corner of Academy Street" was it moved to? What dwelling did it become?
- Preacher Smith? Jenkins? Donaldson writes: "One of the favorite runways for foxes in those days was on Preacher Smith's or Jenkins Hill now called Mount Pisgah."
- Newell Reynolds: birth, death, obit?
- George Berkeley obit
- The Peck, of Peck's Corners
- Streeter and Dennison, owners (successively?) of the Berkeley, starting in 1882 (Donaldson, also Seaver)